As a small business owner, I pay more in federal income taxes than Amazon, which is worth $1.6 trillion more than my business.
So what would really help small business owners like me compete with big corporations? Tax them.
It is a problem that Pharma dominates tv advertising. Other countries don’t allow Pharma to try and talk you into a prescription drug that your doctor hasn’t recommended. Adds to the cost. And is underwritten by your tax dollars (it’s deductible)
Needs to end. I tried.
@NBlakiston@SenSanders $0.01/hr is a wage. “Wages” as an abstract concept do nothing to prevent starvation, if food and shelter cost more to obtain than wages provide.
If you make minimum wage and work full-time, you qualify for food stamps.
Who pays for food stamps? You do.
Stop asking if the price of goods will go up if the minimum wage grows, and start asking why you're subsidizing businesses to pay poverty wages.
Is it not crazy how many pharmaceutical ads there are on TV these days? We live in a country where people drank bleach because the president told them to, and we expect them to know better than their doctors what prescription drugs they should be taking?
@Ejcacciatore@WSBChairman “Wall Street” represents the small handful of ultra-wealthy individuals and corporations who use capital markets as a means to enrich themselves, often times illegally or extralegally, at the direct expense of average people.